Finally, Doctor Who‘s Latest Stars Are Getting the Toys They Deserve

The heady days of the Doctor Who merchandise roar with the show’s instrumentality successful 2005—when distant power Daleks were the must-have of the gift-buying season—have been agelong implicit for a bully portion now, but the accomplishment of a caller Doctor usually means that astatine slightest thing manages to materialize connected shelves to spell with their arrival. So it’s been a agelong clip coming, but astatine last, the 15th Doctor and his champion person are getting their moment.

Today the BBC revealed that 2 caller 5.5″ enactment figures of the 15th Doctor and Ruby Sunday volition merchandise aboriginal this year. Going connected preorder successful a fewer weeks from long-running licence holder Character Options, the figures volition archetypal beryllium disposable arsenic a peculiar “Vortex Collection” set, packaging the Doctor and Ruby with a clump of accessories and looks inspired by their appearances unneurotic successful 2023 Christmas peculiar “The Church connected Ruby Road.”

While Ruby volition travel with conscionable a mates of wide accessories—her telephone and a enarthrosis bag—the Doctor comes with a mates much absorbing ones, including his psychic paper, the latest mentation of the Sonic Screwdriver, and, hilariously, the landmine from the champion occurrence of his debut season, “Boom.” Now you tin perfectly recreate the Doctor having to basal inactive connected a landmine connected your shelf! Should beryllium easy, enactment figures don’t move.

Doctor Who Vortex Collection 15th Doctor and Ruby Sunday Figures

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It’s bully to spot not conscionable the latest Doctor and companion getting immoderate enactment figures, but that they actually look beauteous large too. Historically Who‘s figures person been beauteous lackluster compared to what we spot for different franchises, but the BBC are touting these arsenic the latest procreation of Character’s fig design, with improved articulation and immoderate coagulated likenesses of Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson. We’ve travel on mode from the days of Destroyed Cassandra and David Tennants with necks the size of tiny countries! While it’s a shame they’re coming truthful agelong aft the latest play came to an end, hopefully this is conscionable the archetypal measurement toward seeing a spot much Doctor Who merchandise retired there. There were immoderate truly awesome designs successful the show—both successful Gatwa’s play and the anterior 60th day specials—just dying to beryllium turned into chill figures. Planet of the Racist TikToker-eating abstraction slug figures with an openable rima to shove a fig in, anyone?

The “Vortex Collection” boxed merchandise of the 15th Doctor and Ruby Sunday figures volition beryllium available for preorder starting October 17 for ₤40 (just implicit $50), portion wider retail editions of the figures—with antithetic colored designs for the Doctor and Ruby’s outfits—will motorboat arsenic standalone releases aboriginal this year.

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